The average income was a lot smaller then than it is now
inflation over the years perhaps?
I infer that the average household spends more money on leisure than it did back then
Street Amusements
How often did families get to enjoy their neighborhood?
What's an organ grinder?
today people stay inside because of technological advances in society that have drawn time away from socializing with neighbors
Picture of organ grinder
It would be a lot more strange and uncommon to find someone playing an organ grinder in the middle of the street than it was back then
kids seem to be drawn to the music
the norm for entertainment during those days
Photo of children playing.1
Kids playing with marbles or dice...very different to how kids today play
girl watches with assumed baby brothers and sisters... already taking her role as "woman/mother of the family" while the boys play the game themselves
Photo of children playing. 2
seem to be playing ring around the rosie
all wearing coats and hats and they could go out and play even in the cold.
don't seem to be supervised
the streets must've been safer back then than now
Photo of children playing. 3
kids playing leap frog
kids dressed nicely even for leisure activities
why do people dress nicer then people do now?
REFLECTION: Compared to today's time spent on leisure and how it was spent during the Industrial Revolution, many things have changed. For instance, most of the time during the Industrial Revolution, a person's day consisted of work and mostly work. Only 2.4% of a families budget was spent on leisure which is vastly different compared to todays average family. People during the Industrial Revolution did different activities then people do today. Most leisure was spent outside the house. Kids were on the streets playing with marbles and leapfrog and watching street performers. It was a treat if a family got to take a stroll through Central Park on a Sunday afternoon and maybe have a picnic. Today most people spend their free time inside because of all the new technological advancements since the Industrial Revolution. A womens day consisted of working at a facotry and doing household chores. they used the neighborhood as their social network chatting woth the ni=eighbors and so forth. men spent leisure at barbershops, lodges, or schools 2nd wordle
Means of production assembly line invisible hand communism vs capitalism supply and demand Karl Marx Adam Smith Communist Manifesto division of labor wealth of nations standard of living Leisure time factories tenements cars henry ford baseball Entrepeneurs Laissez Faire triangle shirt waist fire jobs for women Free Market Poor working conditions Andrew Carnegie Socialism equilibrium Market-based economy Mass production Thomas Malthus
Reflection:
Tenement Virtual tour 1870:
Basement: John Schneider is the saloon keeper and a child walks in with a pail that needs to be filled with beer. Caroline is making a free lunch for the saloon patrons.
First floor: Langolors- Julia and her children live there and she is a laundress. It is too cold to work in the courtyard so her son Henry is carrying buckets of water to boil the clothes. Julia's daughter, Frederica, is sewing.
Second floor: Glockners- Edward and Caroline's baby has capillary bronchitis and what the doctor prescribed for him didn't help. The baby dies.
Third floor: Shafers- Adolph owns a shooting gallery and his wife is a dressmaker. Charles and John are laborers. John is about to carry the slops down to the backyard privy while Margaret is diapering the baby. Louis is using the chamber pot (bathroom).
Fourth floor: Gottbergs- Polish and Prussian immigrants, man is a lace dealer. Aaron Brouchard is a peddler and the in-law
1915:
Second floor: Rogarshevskys- Abraham, Annie, and their four children came from Russia in 1901. They are preparing for Passover. Their boarder, Clara Kaplan, gives 8 year old Phillip a bag of Chumetz, bread crumbs swept up from the corners of the room. Philip wants to either burn the Chumetz or give children in the street a few pennies to burn it for him. Henry folds the bedding where he and his brother slept on the couch extended by chairs.
Third floor: Barnonovitchs- Harry and Rosie live with their boarders and will probably be going to a relative's house for Passover, now they can work in their home sweatshop until then. An inspector is here checking the tenement for any violations.
Fourth floor: Rubinskys- Naturalized Americans, Bessie and Morris are carrying boxes of Matzoh into the kitchen. Their naturalization papers are framed on the wall and Bessie's name will be on the City's voter's register in 1918. Their daugher, Libby, is playing with silk flowers her mother is making. Abraham Un, a boarder, is reading a Yiddish newspaper.
Fifth floor: Confinos- Ten people lived here. They're all Sephardic Jews from Greece. They are preparing for the Passover Seder. Rachel is about to kill a carp for Peshi al Forno while the children are fighting for Passover candy. The children sleep on orange crates while others sleep on thick rugs spread out on the floor.
Working Class Budget
- The average income was a lot smaller then than it is now
- inflation over the years perhaps?
- I infer that the average household spends more money on leisure than it did back then
Street Amusements- How often did families get to enjoy their neighborhood?
- What's an organ grinder?
- today people stay inside because of technological advances in society that have drawn time away from socializing with neighbors
Picture of organ grinder- It would be a lot more strange and uncommon to find someone playing an organ grinder in the middle of the street than it was back then
- kids seem to be drawn to the music
- the norm for entertainment during those days
Photo of children playing.1- Kids playing with marbles or dice...very different to how kids today play
- girl watches with assumed baby brothers and sisters... already taking her role as "woman/mother of the family" while the boys play the game themselves
Photo of children playing. 2- seem to be playing ring around the rosie
- all wearing coats and hats and they could go out and play even in the cold.
- don't seem to be supervised
- the streets must've been safer back then than now
Photo of children playing. 3- kids playing leap frog
- kids dressed nicely even for leisure activities
- why do people dress nicer then people do now?
REFLECTION: Compared to today's time spent on leisure and how it was spent during the Industrial Revolution, many things have changed. For instance, most of the time during the Industrial Revolution, a person's day consisted of work and mostly work. Only 2.4% of a families budget was spent on leisure which is vastly different compared to todays average family. People during the Industrial Revolution did different activities then people do today. Most leisure was spent outside the house. Kids were on the streets playing with marbles and leapfrog and watching street performers. It was a treat if a family got to take a stroll through Central Park on a Sunday afternoon and maybe have a picnic. Today most people spend their free time inside because of all the new technological advancements since the Industrial Revolution. A womens day consisted of working at a facotry and doing household chores. they used the neighborhood as their social network chatting woth the ni=eighbors and so forth. men spent leisure at barbershops, lodges, or schools2nd wordle
Means of production
assembly line
invisible hand
communism vs capitalism
supply and demand
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
Communist Manifesto
division of labor
wealth of nations
standard of living
Leisure time
factories
tenements
cars
henry ford
baseball
Entrepeneurs
Laissez Faire
triangle shirt waist fire
jobs for women
Free Market
Poor working conditions
Andrew Carnegie
Socialism
equilibrium
Market-based economy
Mass production
Thomas Malthus
Reflection:
Tenement Virtual tour
1870:
- Basement: John Schneider is the saloon keeper and a child walks in with a pail that needs to be filled with beer. Caroline is making a free lunch for the saloon patrons.
- First floor: Langolors- Julia and her children live there and she is a laundress. It is too cold to work in the courtyard so her son Henry is carrying buckets of water to boil the clothes. Julia's daughter, Frederica, is sewing.
- Second floor: Glockners- Edward and Caroline's baby has capillary bronchitis and what the doctor prescribed for him didn't help. The baby dies.
- Third floor: Shafers- Adolph owns a shooting gallery and his wife is a dressmaker. Charles and John are laborers. John is about to carry the slops down to the backyard privy while Margaret is diapering the baby. Louis is using the chamber pot (bathroom).
- Fourth floor: Gottbergs- Polish and Prussian immigrants, man is a lace dealer. Aaron Brouchard is a peddler and the in-law
1915: